News from February 2016
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications from organizations representing lamb producers, seedstock producers, feeders, or first handers interested in nominating members to the American Lamb Board. Applications are due by March 7, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and a Finding of No Significant Impact for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program’s (SJRRP) Eastside Bypass Conveyance Project. The project is designed to restore flow capacity to the channel within the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler concerned with the commission’s reporting on broadband deployment, video competition, and mobile wireless competition. The leaders are concerned that the lack of consistent reporting has “been used to justify commission actions to intervene in seemingly competitive markets."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Two Williamson County residents were indicted on Feb. 2, 2016, for a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former corrections officer for a federal correctional institution in Arkansas has pled guilty to attempting to smuggle contraband into the facility. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Harrison County, West Virginia residents were sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a federal grand jury has indicted six Pine Ridge, South Dakota, men (Steven Steele, Terry Goings III, Jerome Warrior, Calmer Cottier, Albert Cottier, and William Bluebird) for Second Degree Murder and Conspiracy to Commit an Assault; Calmer Cottier was also indicted for Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence; and a Pine Ridge, South Dakota woman (Josann Winters) was indicted for False Statement or Representation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Deonte Spicer, 29, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton, was sentenced today to an additional 70 months in prison for assaulting a fellow prisoner, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Little Rock Area Office and the Arkansas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America renewed a strategic partnership Feb. 4. (From Left to right) Thomas Dickinson, AGC vice president and treasurer; Carlos Reynolds, OSHA's Little Rock Area Office director; Joe Morgan, AGC safety director; William Fletcher, AGC president; and Lance Wright, AGC field representative.)
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
Release: Santa Clara, CA, Feb. 5, 2016 - Amid pre-Super Bowl 50 celebrations today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, and Paul Rovey, dairy farmer and leader of the National Dairy Council (NDC), announced the availability of $35 million in grants to help schools upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure in order to offer students better access to nutritious foods.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler concerned with the commission’s reporting on broadband deployment, video competition, and mobile wireless competition. The leaders are concerned that the lack of consistent reporting has “been used to justify commission actions to intervene in seemingly competitive markets."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Nearly two dozen people have been ordered to prison in relation to a drug conspiracy involving heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. All were charged in a 2013 indictment alleging members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang were involved in the drug conspiracy. They had all previously pleaded guilty in the case.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Katmai National Park and Preserve will host a public meeting and information session on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 from 5-7 p.m. at the Naknek Native Village Council Building (Dolly’s Hall) in Naknek. We will be discussing compendium changes for 2016 and be available for other questions.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today solicited input from members of the health care community on policy changes regarding site-neutral payments, including changes made to certain Medicare hospital reimbursements...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Friday, February 5, 2016, Edridge Clyne, 45, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for January 2016...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: St. Augustine, FL - In honor of the important African American heritage of this community, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument will host a special evening event on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. This event is made possible through a partnership with the Fort Mose Historical Society and the Florida Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Sycamore Island Pond Isolation Project, located along the San Joaquin River near Fresno.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant Assaulted Young Relatives between 1999 and 2005.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Outbreaks, Attacks, and Accidents: Combatting Biological Threats."
